This grant provides continued support of the Alumni Initiative, an effort to engage young Jews who have participated in AJWS tours abroad or who work on social justice issues domestically.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009

To support the participation of synagogues and Jewish organizations in congregation-based community organizing-a process that develops leadership within congregations, allows members to identify issues of concern, teaches them to research these issues, and connects congregations of different religions and denominations through publications to hold elected officials accountable to communities. The Bay Area Organizing Committee is a coalition of interfaith congregations that has, over the last five years, engaged Sonoma, Napa, and Marin county synagogues in this work. This grant supports efforts to expand this work to synagogues in the North Bay and the East Bay.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2008] , $50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2010

This grant supports the expansion of Bay Area programs that engage clergy in economic justice and immigration rights campaigns. Funding will enable CLUE to expand its local work, train an additional 60 religious leaders, and create new affiliate groups. Funding will also support CLUE's internal planning. This grant is a renewal of previous grants in 2006 and 2007.
Grant Amount: $60,000 [2008] , $50,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/21/2008 through 11/21/2010
Project Web Site: www.cluela.org

A number of Bay Area schools already use Facing History's Holocaust education curriculum. The grant will expand that number of schools, and also will enable the Bay Area to participate in a national evaluation of the effectiveness of teaching about racism and prejudice as a way to create greater educational engagement of teachers and students.
Grant Amount: $70,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008] , $30,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 03/29/2007 through 03/29/2010
Project Web Site: www.facing.org

General operating support and strategic planning.
Grant Amount: $150,000 [2004], $150,000 [2005], $100,000 [2006], $100,000 [2007], $100,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 09/27/2004 through 09/26/2009

This grant supports the Federation's 2009 annual campaign, which supports myriad agencies and initiatives throughout the Jewish community.
Grant Amount: $1,250,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/21/2008 through 11/21/2009
Project Web Site: www.sfjcf.org

The Jewish Community Free Clinic is a volunteer-run clinic that offers medical care for individuals in need in Sonoma and Marin counties, without regard to ethnicity, race, or religion. This grant will enable the Clinic to add a Monday evening family practice session.
Grant Amount: $35,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/10/2008 through 12/10/2009
Project Web Site: www.jewishfreeclinic.org

To strengthen the role of Bay Area synagogues in faith-based community organizing. JFJ has been working with Bay Area synagogues since 2005 to encourage Jews to work with other communities of faith to pursue policy and legislative solutions to social inequities.
Grant Amount: $85,000 [2008] , $85,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 03/31/2008 through 03/31/2010
Project Web Site: www.jewishjustice.org

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
This grant supports the Jewish Music Festival, a diverse celebration of multicultural Jewish music. This year, the Festival will highlight connections between the Jewish and African American communities, and will offer a dozen public concerts along with dances, a free community music day, and outreach to schools. The grant includes a $10,000 match for new or increased support.
Grant Amount: $25,000 [2008] , $10,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 12/15/2008 through 12/15/2009
Project Web Site: www.jcceastbay.org

The mission of JVS is to strengthen the Bay Area community and fulfill Jewish values by helping people, particularly those with barriers to employment, acquire the skills and resources they need to secure meaningful employment and advance toward self-sufficiency. JVS builds its programs around specific industry sectors and works closely with employers to design and deliver training and job placement services. Several programs within JVS address the needs and aspirations of immigrants and, as a Jewish organization, JVS is well positioned to build bridges between Jewish and non-Jewish communities. Thus this core support grant is jointly funded by the Fund's Economic Security and Jewish Life programs.
Grant Amount: $150,000 [2006], $150,000 [2007], $150,000 [2008] , $150,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 12/07/2005 through 12/07/2010
Project Web Site: www.jvs.org

This grant supported the participation of Bay Area outreach professionals at a national gathering. Experts in the field of outreach to the intermarried met with demographer Bruce Phillips to better understand recent studies. Participants developed recommendations for communal organizations to help them better meet the needs of intermarried families.
Grant Amount: $4,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 09/04/2008 through 09/04/2009
Project Web Site: www.lehrhaus.org

One Voice Movement is an effort to bring Israeli and Palestinian students to Bay Area campuses as a way to reach and encourage moderate voices, and in support of the nascent Jewish and Muslim partnerships that have begun to form.
Grant Amount: $75,000 [2007], $75,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009
Project Web Site: www.onevoicemovement.org

This grant supports local Jewish social justice programming and transition costs for the Bay Area work of Progressive Jewish Alliance. PJA will pilot a Jewish-Muslim service program, create programs with Muslim partners to foster mutual understanding, and continue to offer leadership and programming around marriage equality, economic justice, and immigration reform. PJA is currently undergoing a search for a new Executive Director; a portion of this grant covers costs incurred in the transition. Year Two is conditioned on a $75,000 match for new funding. This grant is a renewal of previous grants in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2006.
Grant Amount: $125,000 [2008] , $50,000 [2009] , $75,000 conditional
Project Dates: 11/21/2008 through 11/21/2010
Project Web Site: www.pjalliance.org

This grant will help SFOP launch its Clergy Development Initiative, to bring together clergy and public school leaders in San Francisco. SFOP will hold regularly meetings for clergy and school leaders, will expand its network. In addition to developing these partnerships between congregation and school leaders, this grant will also support the continuation of SFOP's community organizing work with San Francisco synagogues, work that has been supported since 2004 by the Haas Fund.
Grant Amount: $60,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/21/2008 through 11/21/2009
Project Web Site: www.sfop.org

This grant will support local programs for clergy and social justice activists seeking a spiritual dimension to Judaism. IJS will offer a four-day retreat for leaders from Jewish and secular social justice organizations. It will also develop curriculum and provide teaching for synagogues involved in community organizing and will sustain and grow its rabbinic leadership program. The Fund has been a supporter of IJS since 2005.
Grant Amount: $65,000 [2008] , $35,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/21/2008 through 11/21/2010
Project Web Site: www.ijs-online.org/

This is the final year of support for Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation, which educates students about Jewish partisans and their life lessons. Through its curriculum, workshops, films, and Website, Jewish Partisans attempts to transform widely held misperceptions of the Jewish experience during WWII and to empower young people to stand up to anti-Semitism and injustice.
Grant Amount: $25,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/11/2008 through 12/11/2009
Project Web Site: www.jewishpartisans.org

With an additional two years of funding, Jewish Telegraphic Agency will cover issues facing American Jews, with a focus on programs and activities on the West Coast.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2007], $40,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/09/2007 through 07/09/2009
Project Web Site: www.jta.org

The Judah L. Magnes Museum is the oldest independent Jewish Museum in the United States and its Western Jewish History Center collects, preserves, and provides public and scholarly access to archival documents about the Jewish community in the American West. This grant will enable the Magnes to digitize its holdings and to support a permanent exhibit (in partnership with the Labyrinth Project). By enhancing its on-site archives through an interactive and dynamic permanent exhibition and by making off-site access possible, the Museum's holding will be available to new and diverse audiences
Grant Amount: $65,000 [2007], $65,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2009
Project Web Site: www.magnes.org

To support programs in the Bay Area that present klezmer music and Yiddish language to a contemporary audience. KlezCalifornia works with local Jewish Community Centers to engage the public through workshops and concerts.
Grant Amount: $15,000 [2008] , $10,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 05/30/2008 through 05/30/2010
Project Web Site: www.klezcalifornia.org

Fiscal Sponsor: University of Southern California
This grant supports the development of an interactive media project that explores the changing face of the Jewish community in Northern and Southern California and the relationship between Jews and the Latino and Asian American communities, topics for which there has been little scholarship. The museum installation is scheduled to open at both the Autry National Center in Los Angeles and at the Judah L. Magnes, where it will become a part of the Magnes' permanent collection.
Grant Amount: $50,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2009

This grant supports Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girl Thing!, a project that empowers adolescent girls to stay healthy through peer support and Jewish texts and values. Rosh Hodesh partners with local JCC's, synagogues, and schools to train adult facilitators who meet monthly with girls in grades 6 - 12. This is the second year of support from the Fund.
Grant Amount: $25,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/15/2008 through 07/15/2009
Project Web Site: www.movingtraditions.org

To support and expand cultural arts programming at the Peninsula Jewish Community Center. With a population of 23,000 Jewish households representing 53,000 people, th North Peninsula Jewish community has grown 69% since 1986. The PJCC serves a vibrant and growing segment of the Bay Area Jewish community, from its expanded facilities in Foster City. This grant supports an expansion of lectures, performances, and exhibits at the PJCC. In addition, the grant support the JCC Cultural Collaboration, which enables the regional JCCs to share prominent performances, thereby reducing costs and increase publicity.
Grant Amount: $90,000 [2006], $70,000 [2007], $50,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 09/13/2006 through 09/13/2009
Project Web Site: www.pjcc.org

The Cultural Data Project was created in Pennsylvania by collaborating grantmaking agencies that wanted consistent, reliable information on the state's cultural sector and to reduce nonprofits' burden in applying for grants. Its founder designed a sophisticated Web-based system for collecting and organizing data about finances, staffing, volunteers, and audiences. The Fund's grant supports costs associated with bringing the Data Project to California-modifying the system to meet local funders' needs, providing extensive online and in-person training, and supporting applicants with a robust help desk. By 2010, an estimated 1,000 San Francisco and Alameda County organizations are expected to participate. This grant is supported by the Fund's Arts program at the level of $25,000 and $10,000 from Jewish Life.
Grant Amount: $35,000 [2007], $35,000 [2008] , $35,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2010
Project Web Site: www.pewtrusts.org

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the nation's first and biggest, continues to expand its programs and its geographic scope. With funding from W&EHF, the Festival plans to embark on a strategic planning process, hire its first special events coordinator; and upgrade its technology. The Festival showcases a dynamic, pluralistic, complex Jewish community through film, and serves as a catalyst for diverse groups and individuals to consider and interpret contemporary Jewish identity. A portion of the grants are conditioned on the Festival securing matching gifts to broaden its fundraising base.
Grant Amount: $55,000 [2007], $65,000 [2008] , $30,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2009
Project Web Site: www.sfjff.org

To support the 30th Anniversary Fund and the 2008-09 season. In 2009, Traveling Jewish Theatre celebrates its 30th anniversary as a Bay Area cultural treasure. Like many small theater companies, TJT faces significant financial challenges, including a mounting debt untenable for an organization of its size. With the support of its funders, TJT developed a plan to retire much of its debt, scale back production costs, expand its board, and pursue a partnership with the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. This grant is supported by the Fund's Jewish Life program at the level of $50,000 and $25,000 from the Arts.
Grant Amount: $75,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2009
Project Web Site: www.atjt.com

To support the publication and distribution of Cosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Grant Amount: $10,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 10/29/2008 through 10/29/2009
Project Web Site: www.ucpress.edu

Launched in 2001, this organization promotes the leadership of women professionals in Jewish communal institutions and promotes healthy workplace practices that benefit both women and men. This grant supports a project to promote best practices and policies in San Francisco agencies and foundations that can ensure gender equity.
Grant Amount: $35,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/15/2008 through 12/15/2009
Project Web Site: www.advancingwomen.org

Jewish Milestones assists individuals not connected to synagogues or Jewish institutions-including many intermarried Jews, Jews of color, and other diverse segments of the Jewish community-in marking major life transitions from birth to death. Milestones provides professional development for independent ritual facilitators and helps individuals to find a facilitator who meets their needs.
Grant Amount: $65,000 [2008] , $65,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 03/31/2008 through 03/31/2010
Project Web Site: www.jewishmilestones.org

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Funds for Justice
To support the expansion of Bay Area program on gender diversity. Jewish Mosaic is the first national organization dedicated to helping the Jewish community become more open, accessible, and welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Jews and their families. This grant follows two previous years of support to launch Mosaic in the Bay Area. Mosaic will implement a social service initiative that aims to improve service to LGBT Jews in clinical settings t. It will offer training workshops for professionals and will assess the human service needs of LGBT Jews.
Grant Amount: $70,000 [2008] , $70,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 07/11/2008 through 07/11/2010
Project Web Site: www.jewishjustice.org

Fiscal Sponsor: Jewish Funds for Justice
This grant supported the second year of Bay Area programs and a retreat for LGBT Jews in Northern California. Neherim is a national non-denominational organization devoted to creating spiritual and cultural community for LGBT Jews.
Grant Amount: $40,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 11/20/2008 through 11/20/2009
Project Web Site: www.jewishjustice.org

To support Project Welcome, an outreach program designed to encourage Bay Area synagogues to give interfaith couples and unaffiliated Jews a warm welcome. Created four years ago with support from W&EHF, Project Welcome provides consultations with rabbis; offers public events, including free 'Taste of Judaism' classes; and facilitates workshops to help rabbis, lay leaders, and congregants ensure that intermarried members are welcomed.
Grant Amount: $40,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 06/02/2008 through 06/02/2009

Fiscal Sponsor: Bureau of Jewish Education
This grant will expand a program that serves fledgling Jewish organizations in the Bay Area. UpStart will provide up to three years of support and mentorship to 10 Jewish organizations at early stages of their development. Participants will gain knowledge in business fundamentals, Jewish ethics, and the non-profit community. UpStart seeks to provide young adults with new opportunities for learning and meaningful expression of diverse Jewish identity and social justice by expanding the field of Jewish organizations. Previous support for Jewish UpStart (formerly named the Jewish Professional's Coop) totaled $192,000 from 2004 - 2007.
Grant Amount: $100,000 [2008] , $40,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/21/2008 through 11/21/2010
Project Web Site: www.bjesf.org

The Contemporary Jewish Museum is building a new facility that will allow it to expand educational and artistic programming and engage a diverse audience in the arts and Jewish Life. Its campaign goal encompasses construction, transition costs, and endowment growth. Among the 50 Jewish museums in the United States, San Francisco's is the only one that focuses on contemporary perspectives on Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas. With programs that celebrate the diversity of the Jewish people and work to build relationships across cultures, the museum's mission fits two Fund program areas, which share the grant equally, the Arts program's cultural commons emphasis and Jewish Life's creative expression and promoting diversity goals.
Grant Amount: $330,000 [2007], $330,000 [2008] , $340,000 [2009]
Project Dates: 11/27/2007 through 11/27/2010
Project Web Site: www.thecjm.org

To create an intergenerational multi-purpose campus for the South Peninsula Jewish community. The recent demographic survey by the Jewish Community Federation reveals the need for increased services for Jewish residents of the South Peninsula, a region that includes Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose. The Jewish population in this region has increased by 248% since 1986. The South Peninsula Jewish community is now 10% larger than San Francisco's, with the largest number of children under 17 years old in the Federation service area. Despite this growth, the South Peninsula lacks the services needed to support this vibrant Jewish community. The 8.5-acre Campus, which plans to open in 2009, proposes to create a hub of vital programs and will be anchored by two primary partners-the Palo Alto Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Home. The Campus will provide 193 units of senior housing, youth services, and intergenerational programming.
Grant Amount: $200,000 [2006], $200,000 [2007], $200,000 [2008]
Project Dates: 12/11/2006 through 12/11/2009
Project Web Site: www.campusforjewishlife.org